Quite a number of our San Francisco city hall wedding photography clients have acted surprised that we also photograph large full scale weddings. In fact, we were recently told that we missed out on a potential wedding because one of our city hall clients had no idea that we had experience with large formal weddings. They had decided to do a large more formal wedding now that things had settled down after Covid-19 issues and their families were all available. We have been photographing large scale San Francisco and Bay Area weddings for over 20 years. Our experience with City Hall photography has certainly helped us with our knowledge of some of the best places to take our bride and grooms throughout San Francisco. If anything, it has enhanced our ability to capture great images and weekend weddings in the city at any of the most famous venues. We have photographed marriages at most of them.
Many San Francisco Wedding Locations to Choose From
As mentioned above, our San Francisco wedding experience has taken us all over the city and to many of the churches and venues available to engaged couples. Some of our favorite places for ceremonies include Saint Ignatius Church and the beautiful North Beach Church, Saints Peters and Paul. We have photographed multiple weddings at these amazing and historic San Francisco Catholic churches. Other Favorite venues of ours include The Bently Reserve and the Italian Athletic Club a North Beach favorite! The main reason for this blog post is just to let potential clients know that we do more than just SF city hall weddings. We are available for any of your San Francisco bay area wedding photography needs and happy to provide guidance as well.
The other purpose is to let people know in general that San Francisco is loaded with great places to have a full scale weekend wedding. The many old time San Francisco churches, some of which were mentioned above all make for amazing ceremony spots if you want a religious ceremony. If you prefer something less formal, there are great locations throughout the city including the Julia Morgan Ballroom, The Golden Gate Club and one of our favorites, The Log Cabin located in the Presidio. We could go on and on about all of these wedding destinations and perhaps in a future blog we will go into more detail about some of our favorites San Francisco Wedding venues. The point is, there are many places and the prices are more affordable than you might think if you shop carefully.
San Francisco Wedding Photography Locations
Once any of our San Francisco bay area weddings are completed there are so many great places to take our couples for pictures. We have been taking our San Francisco city hall clients to many of these locations over the past 12 years and so we know them well. Of course, they all work just as well for full weekend weddings. As our regular readers know, we love to take our clients to The Legion of Honor, The Palace of Fine Arts, Russian Hill, Baker Beach and so many other fantastic San Francisco destinations! We also have many East Bay locations to take amazing photographs if you are getting married in that region. In addition to our experience with large scale weddings, we also do portrait photography of all types. This includes family portraits and Quinceanera photography.
We should also not fail to mention San Francisco city hall as this historic building can serve as a large scale wedding venue and a place to take pictures for your wedding photographer. You can book a “reserved ceremony” and have all of the comforts and convenience of having your wedding at one of SF’s finest venues. The weather can also affect where we take our couples for their pictures, but fortunately there are so many choices, we always find a great place. Obviously when it comes to really foggy weather, we recommend staying away from the Golden Gate Bridge because it will not be possible to obtain great wedding pictures. We often try to take our couples to a place in the Presidio called Woodline. This is a nice wedding photography locations when the weather is less than ideal because it is well protected. It is down in a valley and also surrounded by large trees which block the wind and even the fog a little. It has become a favorite of ours to take our couples after SF City Hall weddings as well. To see some wedding photos from Woodline in the Presidio click the link.
